Julia Fein B.
@rtlscosmopol.bsky.social
Imperial Russian/Soviet History Ph.D. Done the communism-and-fascism thing, which has been more "relevant" than anticipated (or desired). Real loves: opera, philology, and storytelling ancient, medieval, and modern.
Agree. But by "weird and idiosyncratic" I very much hope we are talking home-baked manifesto weird and idiosyncratic, not the darker potential of Reichstag fire/Kirov assassination weird and idiosyncratic.
Presumably we’ll learn more soon enough, but Kirk is such a bizarre target—a dime-a-dozen little grifter—that I tend to suspect the motive is going to turn out to be something weird and idiosyncratic.
Don't be surprised if whoever killed Charlie Kirk has no coherent political ideology, didn't do it for any particular reason, and doesn’t fall anywhere neat on the left/right paradigm.
September 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Agree. But by "weird and idiosyncratic" I very much hope we are talking home-baked manifesto weird and idiosyncratic, not the darker potential of Reichstag fire/Kirov assassination weird and idiosyncratic.
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Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
I am very here for this whole thread.
I am at war with my 9yo.
He asked me to guess how many Nerds were in a box of Nerds and I did and asked if I was right and he said “well, well never know” and I said “of course we can know.” And he said “I’m not gonna count them all.” And I said: “you don’t have to” and explained MATH.
He asked me to guess how many Nerds were in a box of Nerds and I did and asked if I was right and he said “well, well never know” and I said “of course we can know.” And he said “I’m not gonna count them all.” And I said: “you don’t have to” and explained MATH.
May 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I am very here for this whole thread.
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This is what I’ve been saying for a long time now. There’s no blue state vision for universities and learning. Just the neoliberal “return on investment” model and the right wing “centers of indoctrination” model.
The most immediate problem for the professoriate right now is that its vision of the university has no political advocates. Democrats really don't care about anything but universities as job training centers, and are proposing massive budget cuts at the state level dailybruin.com/2025/03/13/u...
UC faces over $270M in proposed budget cuts, threatening personnel and programs - Daily Bruin
Experts said Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget cuts to the University could harm student enrollment and education quality. The UC is facing over $270 million in budget cuts for the 2025-26 fiscal ye...
dailybruin.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is what I’ve been saying for a long time now. There’s no blue state vision for universities and learning. Just the neoliberal “return on investment” model and the right wing “centers of indoctrination” model.
So, like, an End-Permian extinction event, but for farm animals. I wouldn't watch that documentary.
He warned us he'd let RFK Jr. "go wild."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...
RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread (Gift Article)
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
So, like, an End-Permian extinction event, but for farm animals. I wouldn't watch that documentary.
Poor multitasking - definitely the main problem, here.
Tesla investor calls on Musk to quit DOGE or Tesla. Tells Sky News this is first time he has said it but it needs to be said .
news.sky.com/story/its-a-...
news.sky.com/story/its-a-...
Tesla investor calls for Elon Musk to step down as boss
Wealth manager Ross Gerber tells Sky News that Elon Musk's time has become too stretched and his work alongside President Trump too divisive.
news.sky.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Poor multitasking - definitely the main problem, here.
More than one person looked around the world right now and said, “YES, let’s do THIS story.” Digest that.
March 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
More than one person looked around the world right now and said, “YES, let’s do THIS story.” Digest that.
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absolutely destroys google
March 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
absolutely destroys google
Your average hen actually has the same degree of socio-economic awareness as your average Republican functionary of 2025. But considerably more empathy.
Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins on the "silver lining" of egg shortages: "People are kinda looking around thinking, 'Wow, maybe I could get a chicken in my backyard!' And it's awesome."
(Sorry, I was on vacation when this happened but wtf, lol)
(Sorry, I was on vacation when this happened but wtf, lol)
March 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Your average hen actually has the same degree of socio-economic awareness as your average Republican functionary of 2025. But considerably more empathy.
Yes, we're living The Wonderful O. Minus any laughs.
Perhaps no one bothered to spend 10 seconds figuring out what dismissals made sense (if any) and which did not.
Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."
March 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Yes, we're living The Wonderful O. Minus any laughs.
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It’s amazing to me just for how long @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has said that this is exactly what was going to happen. And said not with vague ambiguities. Just wrote substacks and whole books describing these moments in advance.
We all could/should have known.
We all could/should have known.
Our criminal president is literally breaking up the federal government and selling it off for parts.
This is almost every major federal building in DC, and even includes the HEATING PLANT that supplies steam and cold water to government buildings.
March 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It’s amazing to me just for how long @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has said that this is exactly what was going to happen. And said not with vague ambiguities. Just wrote substacks and whole books describing these moments in advance.
We all could/should have known.
We all could/should have known.
Ah yes, the glorious intellectual tradition of determining who is "not fit” to have a job, reproduce, live… And without even a footnote crediting any Nazis, tsk.
Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."
March 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Ah yes, the glorious intellectual tradition of determining who is "not fit” to have a job, reproduce, live… And without even a footnote crediting any Nazis, tsk.
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I mean, literally impeach him a separate time for every instance of this.
March 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I mean, literally impeach him a separate time for every instance of this.
So, just over the course of the past week, Canada is: 1) the country I will now have to go to get a damn flu shot; 2) a country with whom we are in a trade war; 3) a country against whom we are going to start an actual war - all of it for absolutely no fucking (reality-based) reason whatsoever
March 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
So, just over the course of the past week, Canada is: 1) the country I will now have to go to get a damn flu shot; 2) a country with whom we are in a trade war; 3) a country against whom we are going to start an actual war - all of it for absolutely no fucking (reality-based) reason whatsoever
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Tyranny has come to America and our political class is so convinced of the fact that political ideas must be disguised in the language of grocery prices that it is unwilling and unable to even say what’s happening
March 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Tyranny has come to America and our political class is so convinced of the fact that political ideas must be disguised in the language of grocery prices that it is unwilling and unable to even say what’s happening
Toad for Congress!
Reminds me of when I'm having an off day, so I add "eat lunch" and "make list" to my to-do list just so I can cross them off
They really need a way of communicating to people who don’t read books:
March 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Toad for Congress!
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It is truly fucking wild how the introductory thesis of this argument is, "As we all know, men will find any loophole they can to be sex criminals and degenerates. My primary source on this is me, a degenerate."
Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spouts transphobic talking points to Bill Maher.
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
Ex-Chicago mayor rips current city leaders for focus on bathroom and locker room instead of crime, education
During HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted city leadership for failing the city on safety and educational standards.
www.foxnews.com
March 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
It is truly fucking wild how the introductory thesis of this argument is, "As we all know, men will find any loophole they can to be sex criminals and degenerates. My primary source on this is me, a degenerate."
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THIS AMERICAN DOES NOT WANT YOU TO WORK TOGETHER WITH A FUCKING FASCIST TO FIND COMMON GROUND ON WHICH PARTS OF DEMOCRACY WE NO LONGER NEED
"It is very clear that, if there is a middle of all of this hot mess of division, Americans want us to work together when we can and find common ground," Sen. Amy Klobuchar tells the Opinion writer Michelle Cottle.
Opinion | Amy Klobuchar on How Democrats Can Combat America’s ‘Hot Mess of Division’
The Minnesota moderate has thoughts on how her party can move forward.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
THIS AMERICAN DOES NOT WANT YOU TO WORK TOGETHER WITH A FUCKING FASCIST TO FIND COMMON GROUND ON WHICH PARTS OF DEMOCRACY WE NO LONGER NEED